Victoria Bekiempis' Year of the Takeout on FiTR Featured on Today Show Blog

Fork in the Road (and Runnin' Scared) scribe Victoria Bekiempis has been eating her way through the city's largely unchronicled Chinese takeaway restaurants. She's completing her sixth week of a year-long project, and her efforts have already attracted the attention of NBC's Today show blog.

Her plan is to eat once every day in a Chinese restaurant, take a picture, and post the results. Among other things, the series demonstrates how regional Chinese cuisines have gradually infiltrated what used to be a mainly Cantonese canon.

Her conclusions so far? "'It's had its ups and downs, however, there are definitely more ups than down,' she said. 'There were a few days when I kept getting exceedingly mediocre plates, and it was difficult to power through that. Sometimes you get particular dish and all you want is cheeseburger. My expectation is that I'm going to get a lot of run-of-the-mill stuff, but it's the diamonds in the rough make this project worthwhile.'"